Ahumada
surname · Latin script
Meaning: the sending of smoke signals
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/aumada/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ahumada is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ARArgentina1 in 2.9K
- COColombia≈1 in 5.9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chile (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 257 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
the sending of smoke signals
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ahumada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL Chile | #141 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ahumada | 122 |
| AR Argentina | #368 | 15,464 | 1 in 2.9K | 15K | Ahumada | 95 |
| CO Colombia | #501 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 4 | Ahumada | 109 |
| US United States | — | 4,937 | 1 in 67K | 4.9K | Ahumada | 257 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Ahumada | 53 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,707 | 1 in 29K | 1.7K | Ahumada | 101 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Agustín de Ahumadab. 1700ESSpanish military officer
- Ernesto Corripio y Ahumadab. 1919MXCatholic cardinal (1919–2008)
- Sergio Ahumadab. 1948CLChilean footballer
- José Luis Villanuevab. 1981CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Gerardo Espinozab. 1981MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer and manager
- Oscar Ahumadab. 1982ARArgentinian footballer
- Gonzalo Barrigab. 1984CLnot in their usual nameChilean footballer
- Carlos Baccab. 1986COnot in their usual nameColombian association football player
- Diego Díaz Ahumadab. 1986CLChilean footballer
- Adriana Ahumadab. 1995MXMexican actress and singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 15K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.9K | #6,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.9K | #6,656 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.7K | #8,276 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.7K | #2,765 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.7K | #2,763 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #112 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ahumada mean, and where does it come from?
- the sending of smoke signals Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ahumada?
- A machine transcription gives /aumada/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Ahumada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Ahumada in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahumada.
- How common is the name Ahumada?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 15,464 people named Ahumada, about 1 in 2.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Ahumada compared with other names?
- In Chile, Ahumada is the 141st most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ahumada?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahumadaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ahumada” — the 141st most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.